For the purpose of this chapter, certain words
and terms used herein are defined as follows:
COUNTY OFFICIAL MAP
A map established by the Ontario County Board of Supervisors
pursuant to §§ 239-g, 239-h and 239-i of the General
Municipal Law.
CUL-DE-SAC
A short street having but one (1) end open to traffic and
the other end being permanently terminated by a vehicular turnaround.
DRAINAGE RIGHT-OF-WAY
The lands required for the installation of stormwater sewers
or drainage ditches or required along a natural stream or watercourse
for preserving the channel and providing for the flow of water therein
to safeguard the public against flood damage.
EASEMENT
The lands created through authorization by a property owner
for the use by another and for a specified purpose of any designated
part of his property.
FLOOD LIMITS
The land-water boundary of a natural watercourse flowing
at a frequency defined by the United States Department of Housing
and Urban Development (Flood Insurance Administration), where appropriate,
or, in the absence of Department of Housing and Urban Development
defined floodplain limits, as defined by the town.
LETTER OF CREDIT
Security guaranteeing that certain or all improvements will
be made in accordance with the approved plans.
LOT
A piece, parcel or plot of land intended as a unit for transfer
of ownership or for development.
OFFICIAL MAP
The map established by the Town Board under § 270
of the Town Law showing the streets, highways and parks heretofore
laid out, adopted and established by law and any amendments thereto
adopted by the Town Board or additions thereto resulting from the
approval of subdivision plats by the Planning Board and the subsequent
filing of such approved plats.
OFFICIAL SUBMISSION DATE
The date when a subdivision plat shall be considered submitted to the Planning Board, as provided in § 276 of the Town Law, and is hereby defined to be the date of a meeting of the Planning Board at which all required surveys, plans and data described in Article
VI are submitted.
PLANNING BOARD
The Town of South Bristol Planning Board as established pursuant
to the provisions of Article 16 of the Town Law.
PRELIMINARY PLAT
The preliminary drawing or drawings indicating the proposed manner or layout of the subdivision to be submitted to the Planning Board for its consideration and meeting the requirements of Article
VI of this chapter.
RESERVATION FOR HIGHWAY PURPOSES
A strip of land between the existing right-of-way line and
the future right-of-way line of a highway as determined by the agency
having jurisdictional responsibility over the maintenance and construction
of the highway. Where a reservation is required, the front lot line
shall be considered to be coincident with the future right-of-way
line, with front setbacks and any other necessary lot measurements
being measured from the future right-of-way line. Where there is no
requirement for a "reservation for highway purposes," the front lot
line shall be considered to be coincident with the existing right-of-way
line, with front setbacks and any other necessary lot measurements
being measured from the existing right-of-way line.
RESUBDIVISION
Revision of all or part of an existing filed plat, including
consolidation of lots.
SKETCH LAYOUT
Prepreliminary plan or drawings of proposed project.
STREET
Any street, avenue, boulevard, road, lane, parkway, alley
or other way which is an existing or proposed state, county or town
roadway or way shown upon a plat theretofore approved pursuant to
law or approved by official action or a street or way on a plat duly
filed and recorded in the office of the County Clerk of Ontario County
prior to the appointment of a Planning Board and the grant to such
Board of the power to review plats, and includes the land between
the street lines, whether improved or unimproved, and may comprise
pavement, shoulders, gutters, sidewalks, parking area and other areas
within the street lines or right-of-way. For the purpose of this chapter,
"streets" shall be classified as follows:
A.
ALLEYSMinor ways which are used primarily for vehicular service to the back or the side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.
C.
CLUSTER STREETSStreets to service a maximum of twelve (12) dwelling units. Approval of "cluster street" layout shall be made by the Planning Board in each instance.
D.
COLLECTOR STREETSThose which carry traffic from minor streets to the major system of arterial streets, including the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for circulation within such a development.
E.
MARGINAL SERVICE STREETSStreets which are parallel to and adjacent to arterial streets and highways and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
STREET PAVEMENT
The wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular
traffic.
STREET WIDTH
The distance between property lines or right-of-way lines.
SUBDIVISION
The division of any parcel of land into four (4) or more
lots, plots, sites or other divisions of land less than five (5) acres
for the purpose, whether immediate or future, of transferring ownership
or building development, and shall include resubdivision; provided,
however, that the public acquisition by purchase of strips of land
for the widening or opening of streets shall not be included within
this definition nor subject to these rules and regulations.
SUBDIVISION PLAT or FINAL PLAT
A drawing, in final form, showing a proposed subdivision,
containing all information or detail required by law and by these
rules and regulations to be presented to the Planning Board for approval
and which, if approved, may be duly filed or recorded by the applicant
in the office of the Ontario County Clerk.
TIME LIMIT
Refers to the time limits specified in § 276 of
the Town Law of the State of New York, as amended. In the event that
a "time limit" in these rules and regulations shall be at variance
with the current statutory authority of the State of New York, such
statutory time period shall govern.
TOWN DEVELOPMENT PLAN, COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, TOWN PLAN or MASTER
PLAN
A composite of the mapped and written proposals recommending
the physical development of the town prepared by the Planning Board
pursuant to § 272-a of the Town Law which indicates the
general locations recommended for various public works and reservations
and for the general physical development of the town, and includes
any part of such plan separately adopted and any amendment to such
plan or parts thereof.
TOWN ENGINEER
A licensed professional engineer either employed by the town
as staff or appointed annually as a town consulting engineer, competent
in the area of civil and sanitary engineering and related land planning
and retained for the purpose of advising the town in such matters.
ZONING ORDINANCE
The officially adopted Zoning Ordinance of the Town of South
Bristol, together with any and all amendments thereto.